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Making sense out of meaning : an essay in lexical semantics /

Exploring the universe of meaning and how it enables us to put thoughts and experiences into words.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hirtle, W. H. (Walter Heal), 1927- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Montreal [Quebec] ; Kingston [Ontario] ; London [England] ; Ithaca [New York] : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2013]
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • I Situating the Question. Language as a Human Phenomenon
  • Linguists and the Tradition
  • Meaning: An Object of Scientific Enquiry?
  • II Making Words. Coming to Grips with Meaning
  • How Access "Got Verbed"
  • Wording.
  • III Lexemes of verbs. Monosemy and Polysemy
  • Discerning Different Senses of See
  • Grammatical (In)compatibility with Other Verbs
  • Do, Be, Have
  • Working Out the Right Sense.
  • IV Lexemes of Substantives. Common and Proper
  • 'Unbounded' and 'Bounded'
  • Metaphor.
  • V The Grammatical Connection. Making Lexemes into Nouns
  • Space Words, Time Words, and Adverbs.
  • VI Concluding Remarks
  • Conclusion
  • GLossary.